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The Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society The Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society (Original Society founded 1985 Registered Charity no 1047562) A Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee No. 5620267 incorporated the 11th November 2005 Registered Charity 1113765 Bulletin No 118 Summer 2018 Forthcoming Talks and Events 2018 Doors open at 7.30 pm for talks at 8.00 pm. There are displays of items from the FELHS collection and light refreshments. (Helen Smith 01322 864234) 21 September Eynsford Village Hall Film by Fred Penwarden Eynsford (& Farningham) in the 2nd World War; and, if time films by Sidney Crouch of a hunt meeting at The Lion, Farningham, in 1971, and the 1968 floods at Shoreham, Eynsford, & Farningham. 2 November Farningham Village Hall Peace and the aftermath - Eynsford and Farningham after the Great War by Susan Pittman showing aspects of life into the 1920s. To be confirmed - Display by Jan Wilkes & Barbara Cannell following the lives of some of Eynsford's ex-servicemen after the war. 3 NOVEMBER EXHIBITION - FARNINGHAM SHOPS & SHOPPING Shand Hall, Farningham Churchyard - 11 am to 4 pm 2019 15 February Eynsford Village Hall The history and origins of Nursery Rhymes talk and short quiz by Dr John Reuther (counting songs, nonsense rhymes, historical lampoons, lullabies) March to be arranged 26 April Farningham Village Hall Some Kent ghosts by Dennis Chambers (learn how Kent is at the top of the league of the most haunted counties) 31 May Eynsford Village Hall AGM - details to be announced 20 September Farningham Village Hall Dirty Dartford by Christoph Bull (discover how Dartford has shaped the very world in which we live) October to be arranged 8 November Eynsford Village Hall Creep, pull, push - workers on the move by Dr Jean Stirk (the willing or unwilling motives behind the moves and how to trace moving families) 1 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT (Veronica Sheppard) I have been a member of FELHS for the last 10 years helping with all sorts of tasks - mostly caring for the artefacts, catering for social functions, as well as being one of the Monday morning task force. I have lived in Farningham for the last 40 years working in London in a small Toy Museum. Sadly, we say goodbye, but also an enormous thank-you, to Barbara Cannell (chairman), Jan Wilkes (editor of the Bulletin) and Rick Clayton (treasurer), who have stood down from the Committee after many years of hard work and a huge contribution to FELHS. However, we welcome Vikki Saunders from Farningham as our new treasurer and John Mullen, who hails from Crockenhill, as our new secretary. We still have many unfilled posts and volunteering opportunities listed below. None of them are onerous and you would have a jolly group to work with. If the Society closes, the Villages will lose many assets and knowledge about the local area. We have talks and exhibitions throughout the year and they are well attended. The talk and slides on the newly discovered Saxon Palace at Eynsford by Dr Brian Philp was very informative, and the Roman artefacts from FELHS collection, shown for the first time, kept us all enthralled for the evening. As Barbara said the Archive Centre in Eynsford is the best and only resource of history in the area covering Eynsford, Farningham, Lullingstone, Crockenhill and Maplescombe. Please help us to continue gathering and preserving the history of our Villages. Sadly one of our oldest members Peggy Wood, born in November 1920, passed away on 4th June. She was a very keen member of the Society for many years. The Woods came to live in Sparepenny Lane in 1953 and then in the High Street where she entertained us all, usually with a G & T - she will be missed. As you can see from the first page, our varied list of events covers up to the end of 2019, and we hope you will be able to support at least some of them. We are trying to add meetings, with monthly meetings from September to November, and another set of monthly meetings from February to May - so having a winter and a summer break. We like to make each meeting a social occasion with the chance to chat to others while looking at the display of items from the collection, or over a cup of tea or coffee after the talk. Volunteering opportunities: (contact details for Helen Smith or Susan Pittman in Bulletin) We act as a team and would help/welcome newcomers - all offers gratefully received Meetings secretary (to help run the current programme & plan for the future) Bulletin editor (to compile the Bulletin - computer skills required) Publications manager (sending out FELHS publications on request) We also need more casual help with the Farningham Shops Exhibition in November with refreshments and setting up venue for meetings with distribution of the Bulletin inputting Trident index onto computer with keeping the Farningham Scrap Book up to date (newspaper cuttings provided) joining the Monday morning team at the Centre FELHS Date Protection policy The General Data Protection Regulation came into force on 25 May 2018 and applies to FELHS as a not-for-profit organisation which collects, stores and uses personal data, in particular the names, addresses, e-mails and phone numbers of members. Under 'legitimate interest' existing members will continue to receive Bulletins and any essential mailings. FELHS only use your data for specified purposes and legitimate interest in ways that you would reasonably expect:- (a) to cover membership subscriptions. (b) to send out the Bulletin or other circulars related to FELHS. 2 (c) to support our claims for Gift Aid payments from H.M.R.C. FELHS takes data protection very seriously and will take every practical step to ensure the information is safe and accurate. You have the right to access your personal data and to correct any inaccuracies in that information, or to ask for it to be removed at any time. Your data will be deleted on resignation of membership after Gift Aid claims have been completed. We do not use your data for purposes other than those specified. We never share/sell your data with third parties, unless we ask specific individual permission, e.g. when dealing with research queries. FELHS policy can also be found on the website - www.felhs.org.uk RESEARCH REPORT (Susan Pittman 01322 669923 www.felhs.org.uk) Anniversaries 150 years since the first traffic lights - the first traffic signal was invented by J P Knight, a railway signalling engineer. It was installed outside the Houses of Parliament in 1868 and looked like any railway signal of the time, with waving semaphore arms and red-green lamps, operated by gas, for night use. Unfortunately it exploded, killing a policeman. (This reminded me of our local links with road safety through Leslie Hore Belisha of Bower House, Eynsford, who, as Transport Minister, introduced Belisha beacons in the Road Traffic Act of 1934.) 100 years since First World War Armistice - We will be covering this at our November meeting. 100 years since women (some of them) got the vote - To date I have found nothing locally about the impact of this, or whether any women here joined the Suffragettes or Suffragists. 90 years since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. 70 years since the founding of the National Health Service. NEW BOOK ABOUT LULLINGSTONE - Unravelling the Yarn by Claire Weiss This is for sale at £10 from Lullingstone Castle. Claire lived in the same house in Leyton, Essex, where Zoe Hart Dyke (nee Bond) was born and grew up. It had an ancient mulberry tree in the garden. Claire has traced Zoe's fascination with silk from that childhood garden. The book covers Zoe's life and especially its connection with the production of silk, culminating in the establishment of the Silk Farm at Lullingstone. After her divorce from Sir Oliver Hart Dyke, Zoe Lady Hart Dyke moved the Silk Farm to Ayot House, Hertfordshire. This very readable book tells a fascinating story and in doing so shows the influence Zoe had on fashion, and how she used her social connections and flair to find sponsors to keep the Silk Farm going. Queen Victoria's train passes through Swanley 11 March 1899 In the last Bulletin I referred to a photo of the Royal train passing close to Crockenhill near a path over the tracks (which has been replaced by a pedestrian bridge to the west of Swanley). I inaccurately gave the date as 1896 and the destination as Dover. After amazing research by real experts in the field, such as Richard Peirce and Jim Greaves, we have a detailed account of the whole journey. Jim Greaves' article about the journey has been published in Invicta no. 90, Spring 2018, and the editor, Geoff Lines, was kind enough to send me a copy. Jim's article highlights the detailed preparation required by the Railway Company along the route of the Royal train. The engine used was unusual in that it was a GWR (Great Western Railway) locomotive, rather than a South Eastern Railway one which would normally run on the SER line. The Queen was on her way to the French Riviera for a holiday, and all preparations were made for 9 March. However, stormy seas and fog led to a two day postponement. We even know that the photo was taken at 11.45 am because a minute by minute schedule from Windsor to Folkestone was produced, as well as all the alterations to other train journeys to clear the line. At Folkestone the royal party boarded PS Calais Douvres which was escorted to Boulogne by eight torpedo boat destroyers and the Trinity yacht 3 Irene.
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